Sample-sheet rotary display-stand.



PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904.

V G. H. WHAPLEL SAMPLE SHEET ROTARY DISPLAY STAND.

APPLICATION FILED OUT-17, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented August 30, 1904.

PATE T Qrrrcn.

GEORGE HOYT WHAPLE, OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOl/VA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,644,

dated August 30, 1904:.

Application filed October 17,1903. Serial No. 177,443. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE HOYT THAPLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oedar Rapids, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sample-Sheet Rotary Display- Stands, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a sample-sheet ro tary display-stand; and the object of my invention is to produce a rotary display-stand for exhibiting samples of wall-paper, with the ceiling samples at the top, the side-wall samples at the bottom, and the border samples between them.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a rotary display-stand embodying the preferred form of my invention, only two of the supportingarms and panels being shown. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section of the head-casting and the upper portion of the shaft, showing two of the supporting-arms. Fig. 3 is a top plan view'of the head-casting to the same scale as Fig. 9..

1 designates the base, which may be of wood or iron, having three or four legs a.

3 designates a vertical shaft, the lower end of which is preferably secured in the base 1 nonrotatably. The top of the shaft 3 is pointed, as shown, and resting thereon is a metal plate 4, having a central recess adapted to turn upon the top of the shaft 3. Secured to the bottom of said plate at by screws or bolts 5 is a circular plate 6, having a depending hub or sleeve 7 integral therewith, said hub or sleeve being rotatable around the shaft 3. The lower portion of said hub or sleeve 7 is reduced in diameter, as shown, and fitted upon said reduced portion 7 is a circular plate 8 of the same diameter as the upper plate 6. Said lower plate 8 is secured to hub or sleeve 7 by set-screws 9 or equivalent devices. The upper plate 6 is preferably cast with openings 10 therein, which reduces the weight and cost of the castings. The lower plate 8 may be similarly formed, as shown in Fig. 3 A ring of perforation s 12 is drilled through the rims of both plates 6 and 8, and inserted in 5 each of said perforations is the downwardlybent inner end of a rod or arm 14. In the drawings for clearness most of said rods or arms 14 are omitted; but the number of said rods or arms in the stand will correspond to the number of perforations in either plate 6 or 8. In Fig. 8 only sixteen perforations are shown; but a larger number of these holes may be drilled, fifty being preferred. The rods or arms 14 may be 'swung at different angles, their inner ends 14 being rockable in the perforations 12.

Suspended from each rod or arm 14 is a panel 16. These panels are made, preferably, of a material called fiber-backing; but they may be made of paper, wood veneer, sheet metal, or cloth. They may also be provided with frames, if so preferred. The devices for suspending the panels from the rods or arms may be either hooksor loops, as preferred. On both sides of these panels the sample sheets of wall-paper are mounted. A sidewall sample and a border sample may fill one panel and the ceiling sample placed on a separate panel, which may be smaller than the standard-sized panels.

The lower plate 8 may be cast integral with the hub or sleeve 7. The shaft 3 may be mounted rotatably in the base, and the sleeve or hub 7 secured rigidly to the shaft.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a rotary display-stand for sample sheets, a vertical shaft, a hub embracing the upper portion thereof, a horizontal circular plate integral with said hub, a smaller plate secured to the top of said circular plate, said smaller plate resting upon the topof said shaft, a lower circular plate secured on said hub, both of said circular plates having perforations in their rims, said perforations in said upper plate being in vertical-register with said perforations in said lower plate, horizontal rods having inner ends bent clownwardly and passing through said perforations in both of said circular plates,'and panels hung from said respective rods, substantially as described.

2. In a rotary display-stand for sample sheets, a vertical shaft, a hub embracing the 10 with said perforations in said lower plate,

horizontal rods having their inner ends bent downwardly and passing through said perforations in both of said circular plates, and panels hung from said respective rods, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE HOYT NVHAPLE.

WVitnesses:

O. Bunenssun, J AMES THOMAS. 

